Archive for 'Your Views'

By Lynn Hampton, organizer, Bill Euille write-in campaign The City of Alexandria just received a bond rating upgrade from Standard and Poor’s — to AAA stable. Moody’s upgraded the city’s outlook in 2013. You cannot get [...]

By Jerry Foley, Alexandria (File photo) The recent controversy over Confederate memorials really has made me start thinking so much about our memories that are preserved. Then I realized that here in the United States, especially [...]

By Townsend A. “Van” Van Fleet, Republican city council candidate To the editor: A few months ago I commented in the Alexandria Times that letters to the editor should have identified authors. To have anything less [...]

By Judy Noritake; President, Braddock Metro Citizens Coalition To the editor: On the heels of the homicide in the Braddock neighborhood last week, I want to say a few words by way of introduction about the [...]

By Rev. Matthew Kozlowski and Danielle Kozlowski, Alexandria (Photo/Chris Teale) To the editor: While we realize that there has been no official call to remove or move the memorial to Alexandria’s fallen Civil War soldiers, we [...]

By Sue D. Gunter, Alexandria (File photo) To the editor: I write in response to the letter to the editor titled “Revisit the King Street bike lanes” in the July 2 edition of the Alexandria Times. [...]

By Dino Drudi, Alexandria (Photo/Chris Teale) To the editor: City Hall installed bicycle lanes on upper King Street ostensibly as a traffic-calming measure, but has anyone asked what traffic-calming role the Appomattox statue at the intersection [...]

By William A. Goff, Alexandria (File photo) To the editor: The city recently has begun the process of rebuilding our school infrastructure after years of neglect with a project that is long overdue. The effort begins [...]

By Townsend A. “Van” Van Fleet, Republican city council candidate (File photo) To the editor: I recently attended a meeting of the Old Town Area Parking Study (OTAPS) group at City Hall. The meeting started off [...]